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HoloLens Beginner's Guide

By : Jason M. Odom
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HoloLens Beginner's Guide

By: Jason M. Odom

Overview of this book

HoloLens revolutionizes the way we work and interact with the virtual world. HoloLens brings you the amazing world of augmented reality and provides an opportunity to explore it like never before. This is the best book for developers who want to start creating interactive and intuitive augmented reality apps for the HoloLens platform. You will start with a walkthrough of the HoloLens hardware before creating your first app. Next you will be introduced to the various HoloLens sensors and find out how to program them efficiently so that they can interact with the real world seamlessly. Moving on, you will learn how to create smart animations and add video overlay that implements real-time tracking and motion-sensing abilities to your HoloLens app. Finally, you will learn how to test your app effectively.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Time to build and test


Now, let's see this work on HoloLens. We will be repeating most of the exact same steps from the last chapter; I will lighten up on the visual aids this time:

  1. Click on File and select Build Settings.
  2. From the Scenes In Build box, select Scenes/Main and press the Delete key.
  3. Click on the Add Open Scenes button.
  4. Click on the Build button.
  5. When the Build Windows Store window appears, if you are not already in your app directory, navigate there.
  6. Click on Select Folder.

Here we are, building again! This will take a few moments, and as before, a Windows Explorer window will pop up upon completion:

  1. Double-click on the Apps folder.
  2. Double-click on the HoloLens Beginners Guide.sln.

Now, we wait again as Visual Studio opens up. Ensure that your HoloLens is up and running:

  1. In the Solution Explorer, select HoloLens Beginners Guide (Universal Windows).
  2. Click on Build and select Deploy HoloLens Beginners Guide.

When this process is finished, you will see these statements in your output window...